Edition |
First University of Texas Press edition. |
Description |
xiii, 249 pages ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The problems of reading: mother-daughter relationships and Indian postcoloniality / Radhika Mohanram -- A continuum of pain: a woman's legacy in Alice Walker's Possessing the secret of joy / Kimberly Joyce Pollock -- I was cryin', all the people were cryin', my mother was cryin': aboriginality and maternity in Sally Morgan's My place / Joyce Zonana -- My mother is here: Buchi Emecheta's love child / Patricia Lee Yongue -- (Re)claiming the race of the mother: CherrĂe Moraga's Shadow of a man, Giving up the ghost, and Heroes and saints / Julia De Foor Jay -- The poetics of matrilineage: mothers and daughters in the poetry of African American women, 1965-1985 / Fabian Clements Worsham -- The mother as other: orientalism in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior / Sheryl A. Mylan -- Love and conflict: Mexican American women writers as daughters / Maria Gonzalez -- Mother-daughter relationships as epistemological structures: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead and Storyteller / Charlene Taylor Evans -- Disrupted motherlines: mothers and daughters in a genderized, sexualized, and racialized world / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- Voice, mind, self: mother-daughter relationships in Amy Tan's The joy luck club and The kitchen god's wife / M. Marie Booth Foster -- To make herself: mother-daughter conflicts in Toni Morrison's Sula and Tar baby / Lucille P. Fultz. |
Subject |
American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Mothers and daughters in literature.
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Ethnic groups in literature.
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Motherhood in literature.
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Added Author |
Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth.
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ISBN |
0292708467 cloth alkaline paper |
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0292708475 paperback alkaline paper |
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